Amanda
Amanda asked:

Hi, I am on page 51 of this book. And I am coming across the words "xe" and "xir", are they pronouced as or mean "he" and "her"?

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Noam Xe/xir/xirs is a semi-common set of third-gender pronouns. I've always heard them with a z sound (like xylophone, as Logan said), and rhyming with "she" or "he" and "her" or "sir", particularly by people who use those pronouns, and others in the trans community. I've seen it spelled with X or with Z.

On the audiobook, they're pronounced like "shea" (as in shea butter) and "sheer", but I've never heard those pronunciations outside of this audiobook, and I suspect the narrator for Nara's sections just wasn't familiar with the usual pronunciation.
Logan I’m not sure I completely understand the question but Xe/Xir is another set of pronouns that can be used like she/her or he/him. As how to pronounce them, I’ve always assumed it’s with a z sound like in xylophone? But you may want to check further on that.
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